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Republicans should thank their lucky stars their opponents are the Democrats. And vice versa. Jared Polis or Nikki Haley win 350 EVs

@dylans nah it would be super competitive. Most of those guys are small and not skilled or athletic compared to the 24 team. E.g. KD would almost be the tallest guy on the 92 team and LeBron would be the heaviest.

If you go by league scoring averages the early 90's were hot garbage on defense. These "elite defenses" allowed no fewer than 105 points per game in the entire decade leading up to the Dream Team. The O Rating was higher in 92 than last year. A whoooole lot of nostalgia going on there. Part of that is free throws are way down, from like 28 to 21 per game and fouls are down about 5 per game.

Actual lol at Jordan could carry anyone to a title. Prime Jordan didn't even get to a Finals until 1991. He never won a thing without Pippen, who was really good in his own right. The only guy that maybe could carry a team on his back was Wilt and even then the Celtics owned him.

Well the 08 team was absurdly more talented than the 22 team so I don't care which era they play, 08 wins every single time.

Really weird thing to put in all their career stats since all those guys are retired and the 2024 team clearly has a long way to go. Just look at the guys you listed and their ages. On average the two teams are more or less identical, 92 was a year older than 24 and that's entirely due to LeBron who's still preeeetty good.

@approxinfinity a few guys aren’t that’s for sure. But we also have Ant, Tatum, AD, Bam, etc. that are. Magic and Bird were over the hill in 92. Just as an example, the leading scorer on that team was Barkley. Would he even be able to make the team in 24?

On talent and skill this group is better and it’s not remotely close. We’ll see how they do when the games count

We need to get out of this league

@wissox I’m not too broken up about it. Most games the place wasn’t full. It was always sold out but there were usually GA seats empty up in the corners or even in the student section

@mayjay fun fact: Drew is my boss 😂

@Texas-Hawk-10 enjoy arguing with points I’m not making :)

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Tornados:

@FarmerJayhawk said in Tornados:

@Texas-Hawk-10 I think you have the chain of causality backwards. New members are more beholden to special interests than more senior members. They haven’t been able to develop a unique relationship with their voters so they have to maintain close ties with the groups that supported them originally. For example, if someone were to challenge Senator Moran they’d have to get the support of AFP, Farm Bureau, the Chamber, etc to mount a real challenge. Jerry can go it alone because his constituents know and trust him. More recently, whether it’s JD Vance or Rafael Warnock, they have to pander to stick around. Their senior staff also come largely from special interests since they don’t have a network on the Hill yet.

I'm going to tell you right now, going down this rabbit hole isn't going to be productive because this is something we will never see eye to eye on. You're too tied into the that world because of your agriculture background while I've seen my profession fucked over countless times because of special interest groups lobbying for policies that actively harm public education. I'm not going to change your mind and you're not going to change my mind on this matter so I'd suggest leaving this here.

Ag, public finance, working on the Hill, in a state legislature, regularly meeting with lobbyists, did a PhD in education policy…

The Texas education wars are a good example. Special interests are playing on both sides (unions vs. business) in GOP primaries. It’s not special, there are hundreds of millions poured into elections from groups on all sides of the issue.

@Texas-Hawk-10 I think you have the chain of causality backwards. New members are more beholden to special interests than more senior members. They haven’t been able to develop a unique relationship with their voters so they have to maintain close ties with the groups that supported them originally. For example, if someone were to challenge Senator Moran they’d have to get the support of AFP, Farm Bureau, the Chamber, etc to mount a real challenge. Jerry can go it alone because his constituents know and trust him. More recently, whether it’s JD Vance or Rafael Warnock, they have to pander to stick around. Their senior staff also come largely from special interests since they don’t have a network on the Hill yet.

@kjayhawks I totally disagree. If you turn over the Congress constantly you get 1) greater influence by lobbyists. It takes years to become a serious policy expert. And there aren’t term limits for lobbyists so they’re always going to be more knowledgeable than members on issues if you have term limits. 2) you’ll empower the administrative state. Same logic applies. Members of Congress without expertise can’t write clear, thorough laws so they write vague laws with gaps the administration fills in on a whim. The ACA is probably the best example of a very poorly written law that has spawned approximately a gazillion regulations, intended or not, from unelected bureaucrats. There will be more of them without an informed Congress. We need much more Congressional capacity, not less.

Term limits and reducing the influence of parties and PACs are fundamentally irreconcilable

It’s sort of darkly humorous we asked for a prominent person to run as a third party candidate and in the ultimate monkeys paw curl we got an admitted sexual predator with literal brain worms

@kjayhawks they will for sure. Their costs go up our costs go up

@approxinfinity I’m very much retired from that line of work 😂

@approxinfinity (because they’re the ones spamming people)

All I’ll say on the matter is we’ve got two shit sandwiches so pick whichever bread has your favorite color of mold

Some deets on the updated AFH. Big headline: capacity drops to 15,300 https://kuathletics.com/news/2024/7/11/mens-basketball-season-tickets-celebrating-the-70th-season-of-allen-fieldhouse-now-on-sale.aspx?utm_medium=email&elq_cid=2773&RSRC=Email&RDAT=2800&ehash=5e5af03ba464a753cb3f74331d5e90024a18113f29636941c33101594ac92ee1&aid=16092&pid=kansas_email_eloqua&rid=2800 ↗

It’s super cool he’s choosing to play since it’s his first opportunity but sheesh. He’s still not right

Joel starting for Team USA tonight! On FS1 right now

Jalon is by far the most important player for the success of the season. Wishing him nothing but the best. And 2 more years!

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Thoughts On 2024 Schedule:

@FarmerJayhawk said in Thoughts On 2024 Schedule:

Arrowhead is going to be dirt cheap on the secondary market, there's about a 0.000001% chance we come close to filling it regularly. Children's Mercy, good luck.

Are they even opening the upper level at Arrowhead or just the lower bowl for KU games?

Entire stadium is available

Arrowhead is going to be dirt cheap on the secondary market, there's about a 0.000001% chance we come close to filling it regularly. Children's Mercy, good luck.

Providence there

This was definitely a "have to run the race" recruitment for KU, even though we never really had a shot

Idk, long way to go with Peterson and Acuff

He’s going to be a good one if he stays patient 🐦 View Tweet?s=46&t=c0LiaNrxev6XfT7LIH8dAQ

@dylans uh none of that has anything to do with what I said

Love the fit for Kev in NY. Glad they could interrupt their Bronny coverage to say a couple words about him

@mayjay it’ll be interesting to see if the A’s move actually happens. As far as I can tell pretty much everyone but the A’s owner wants them to stay in Oakland. They’re supposed to start there in 2028 but don’t even have land yet. The whole thing is quite the cluster.

@dylans of course it did. The city would’ve gotten discovery to look into the Rams books and the NFL is absolutely paranoid about anyone seeing how much teams make. That’s a heck of a motivator to settle instead of have this all public at trial

@kjayhawks any threat to relocate is pure posturing to get more public subsidy. Just like Jacksonville was never going to London or the Titans were never leaving Nashville or the Bills were never leaving Buffalo but they all got nice (for ownership) deals from their cities

@dylans it’s right there, not exactly groundbreaking journalism, “ The settlement, reached in mediation, ends a 4½-year-old lawsuit filed in the wake of the Rams' departure. Kroenke and the NFL had failed in bids to have the lawsuit dismissed or at least moved out of St. Louis, and courts were sympathetic to the St. Louis side's effort to disclose financial information of team owners -- rulings that hastened the push for a settlement.” https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32706415/source-nfl-settles-st-louis-lawsuit-rams-relocation-los-angeles-790m ↗

@approxinfinity said in Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster:

No, he would be eligible to return if undrafted

Time to make up a career threatening injury suffered on Broadway before 4 PM tomorrow

Happy Shannon went there. What a travesty he went through here

Wild. Hopefully he’s more motivated than ever

Almost certainly. Shoot even the NBA thought mid first

@approxinfinity oh gawd it’s a real dumpster dive of a draft

@Gorilla72 it’s just scaled back to one per year instead of two I believe

@Texas-Hawk-10 I don't, but it could be any time now. The year before it was late June if memory serves. Not sure if they're waiting on some buy game contracts to get finalized or what

@drgnslayr we can't play abroad for another couple years since we did last year. Also seems like Self has pivoted away from beating up on the MIAA schools twice to having a "secret" scrimmage and exhibition so I bet we'll hear about that toward the fall.

@patoh3 seems to have worked out pretty well for both parties. Stan got to move the team on his own dime and St. Louis got more money than they ever would've gotten for plowing almost $1 billion into a new stadium

@dylans they settled in order to not have to show St. Louis their books. Totally voluntary

@bskeet said in So, Kansas Reinstated the Border War (for the Chiefs):

@dylans said in So, Kansas Reinstated the Border War (for the Chiefs):

Data coming from universities is often flawed by methodology in my many of my experiences, flawed by work ethic in others, and further flawed by the researchers biases

Wow. Please don't tell me you favor data generated by corporations and associations over academic institutions.

Bias is possible with any study, any institution. But if the source is corporations and associations, which have potential conflict of interest, you just have to be more skeptical.

... I have never heard that there is a difference in research rigor from private vs public sources. If that's true, it would be interesting.

In this specific application, the public studies are far superior for a couple reasons. First, the private studies are all bought and paid for. They don't publish their data or methods (or actually any of the study except for topline findings). Here's an example ↗. If you follow the link to the consultant's site, they aren't exactly shy about it, "ESI helps you answer the big questions and make your case through insights, ideas, and thoughtful analysis. We apply our expertise in economic development, real estate, transportation, and public policy to improve the urban environments where we work and live."

Where what we do has to go through review from independent, external experts who, in all but very specific cases, can examine our data and methods, provide substantive critiques, and then we revise if we made a mistake or didn't explain something correctly or whatever. Even though I'm in the private sector now I still do some peer review when it makes sense.

@approxinfinity she’s in love with his massive… bankruptcies 😂

@dylans yes how dare I use objective evidence. I think people who want to practice medicine should just wing it, don’t read books or anything like that. They can’t see viruses or bacteria so how do they even know they’re real? Why should we use RCTs to judge the effectiveness of drugs? They’re just academics who haven’t been in the real world. We should just go with our gut on that.

lol that’s an insane characterization of my position. You clearly have no interest in taking my position in good faith so we’re done here.

@dylans literally none of what you wrote about me is true but thank you for telling how to do the job I don’t have (I’m in the private sector) and telling me how long I’ve lived in Kansas (all but 8 years of my life) Good to know! Seriously so glad you’re so knowledgeable about my situation. Even I learned something! Also my grandpa started one of the last private grain elevators in the country and I’m still involved in managing the family farm so don’t lecture me on the “real world” or some nonsense phrase boomers use to tell anyone a day younger then them they’re wrong without any substance.

Again still waiting on substantive criticisms of the mountain of economic studies here. They’re free to read and you can take your time if you need to read slowly to get your facts straight since that’s a major problem for you.

@dylans sounds like a great opportunity for someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, do some entrepreneurship, and start a business! If you just work hard enough I’m sure you can make a bunch of money without a government handout. So if you’re willing to put the work in like you surely are considering your unparalleled work ethic, write up a business plan and take it to a bank.

Surely if it creates sufficient new economic activity you’ll get the loan and it’ll pay off for sure without government assistance. If not, you just have to work harder. Put in more hours in the heat. Pull yourself up by your swim trunks.

@dylans indeed, it has to pass a "but for" and other analyses that say the project did add additional money and increase income in the area, not just reallocate existing spending, which is what the STAR bond projects that didn't pass LPA's audit found. I'd rather people frequent existing local establishments than reallocate spending toward publicly subsidized ones.

It doesn't generate any growth, just people already there adjust their spending toward the new and shiny thing while existing businesses lose. That's what happens with most big stadium projects. So other local businesses are losing revenue while people spend their money to pay off debt at a project that may be there without the bonds anyway. LPA found most Kansas incentive programs couldn't provide the "but for" assurance Commerce identifies as the main goal of incentive programs.

If tax revenue is what you're after, oops. "We estimated none of the incentive programs will return more than $1 in tax effect returns per $1 of incentive costs... These results show the incentive programs don’t likely cover their own costs in terms of state tax effects. In other words, the future tax effects likely won’t fully cover the state monies awarded as incentives for these programs." In other words, you're better off doing exactly nothing than awarding incentives.

Now on the NFL stadiums thing, WyCo does have some unique factors that will blunt the impact of a new stadium. There are already a ton of hotel rooms, restaurants, and whatnot over there. There won't be a lot of new development. Especially since KCMO is so close. Many (most?) won't even stay and spend all their money in Kansas. They'll just come over for the game. And not all development will be new, Commerce has retained significant eminent domain authority to bulldoze whatever business it wants in the new STAR district for the stadium, again replacing existing spending. I would doubt most "jobs created" would even result in significant consumption in WyCo. Most likely live across the border since there isn't any real housing over there, and there won't be. Housing doesn't generate sales tax revenue so there would be no reason to put it in a STAR district, which has to be huge in size given the multiple billions in debt.

@wissox yeah! The offense is going to be entertaining if nothing else. So much young talent